huān

Traditional: 欢

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Translation

joyful, happy (bound morpheme)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 欢

Examples

chá

I like drinking tea.

Welcome to my home.

chǎonào

She doesn't like noisy places.

She laughs joyfully.

The children are playing merrily.

欢 (huān) carries the sense of joy. It does not stand alone in modern speech but powers two extremely common compounds: 喜欢 (to like) and 欢迎 (to welcome).

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 欢.

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This word is part of lesson 102.